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Climate Brief: Commercial communications array just launched-'might outshine all stars and planets' [1]
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Date: 2022-09-18
Astronomers are concerned about just how big and bright this satellite will be:
A New Scientist report has even suggested that the satellite “could outshine all stars and planets in the night sky
The largest commercial communications array ever has just launched. Expect to see it – it’s huge and bright
The problem is, it might outshine all stars and planets
On the weekend SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a giant satellite into space.
Called BlueWalker 3, it’s a prototype by American company AST SpaceMobile, which is to create a space-based mobile broadband network. This is only one of multiple satellites planned for the SpaceMobile constellation – some even bigger than BlueWalker 3
With plans for a number of these huge satellites, ground based optical telescopes may struggle to image the night sky without disturbance
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